WASHINGTON (Ticker) -- Allen Iverson scored 29 points and Tyrone
Hill matched a career high with 20 rebounds as the
league-leading Philadelphia 76ers posted their 10th straight
road win, an 86-82 triumph over the Washington Wizards.

Philadelphia can match the franchise record for consecutive road
victories with a win at Dallas on January 23. Julius Erving's
76ers reeled off 11 straight road wins from October 15-November
26, 1980.

Iverson scored 11 points in the third quarter as the Sixers
built a comfortable 70-56 cushion entering the final 12 minutes.
Washington made things interesting with a 17-4 run, closing to
80-75 with 4:19 to play. Iverson answered with a jumper after a
key offensive rebound by Hill, but again, the Wizards refused to
go away.

"I started off real slow," said Iverson, who suffered through an
uncharacteristic 12-point performance in Wednesday's home loss
to Portland. "I struggled the last game and I was just
concentrating on coming out here and taking good shots, but that
was not the case. I took a couple of ill-advised shots that
messed my rhythm up a bit. Then in the second half, I hit a
couple of shots and started to feel comfortable again."

Juwan Howard hit a free throw and a jumper before Richard
Hamilton scored to get Washington within 82-80 with 1:25
remaining.

"Washington did a great job of getting back in the game,"
Philadelphia coach Larry Brown said. "They started trapping to
get us out of sync. We got real tentative and they made some
shots. We were fortunate Allen made some shots at the end."

Iverson, nicknamed "The Answer," provided one with another
clutch jumper, but the Wizards got two from the line from
Hamilton and had a chance to tie when Sixers guard Kevin Ollie
was called for charging with 35 seconds left.

Tyrone Nesby missed badly on a 3-pointer and Hill came up with
the rebound before making 1-of-2 at the line to extend the
margin to three points with 18.6 seconds to go.

Chris Whitney, who made a career-best six 3-pointers on
Wednesday against Seattle, lost control while dribbling beyond
the arc on Washington's ensuing trip and Iverson made a free
throw with three seconds left to settle matters.

Theo Ratliff scored 15 points and Hill finished with 14 for
Philadelphia, which has not lost on the road since a 96-85
setback at the Staples Center against the NBA champion Los
Angeles Lakers on December 5. The Sixers boast the league's top
road record at 17-4 and own a 26-9 overall mark.

"We've not played great at home, so every game we can steal is
important," Brown said.

Hamilton scored 22 points for the floundering Wizards, who have
lost six in a row since their posting back-to-back wins for the
only time this season.

Trailing 43-38 at halftime, the Wizards got within three points
when Nesby opened the third quarter with a basket. But Hill and
McKie connected from 14 feet and Iverson drilled a 3-pointer to
spark his best quarter of the night.

The 6-foot guard made two free throws, back-to-back jumpers and
a five-foot pullup before feeding George Lynch for a dunk that
made it 70-50 with 1:10 left in the period.

"One point in the third quarter, I put together a couple of
shots," Iverson said. "But then we stopped doing the things we
were doing, they started pressing us and got us out of our
offensive sets."

Richard Hamilton ended Iverson's outburst with a basket and
Michael Smith made two free throws before Whitney's jumper
before the end of the third quarter cut the deficit to 14,
sparking Washington's big push in the final period.

Howard, Hamilton and Whitney combined for eight straight points
and Smith's follow shot got the Wizards within 79-73 with 5:01
to play.